Current Issue: Domus 874

Cover

To what extent can an architect expect to control the reception of his or her work? To what extent can architecture belong to its architect? ...

Calendar

Edited by Laura Bossi, Elena Sommariva

Vibrate with light

A monument in progress

A feast of architecture

Citizens of an invisible city

Ettore Sottsass. Foto dal finestrino

Toyo Ito. Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre

The workings of the theatre and how it is interpreted in terms of architecture. Actor director Kazumi Kushida and architect Toyo Ito discuss the subject. Text by Akira Suzuki. Edited by Kayoko Ota, Joseph Grima. Photography by Ramak Fazel

Hollein vs. Biennale. Biennale vs. Fuksas

Hans Hollein and Massimiliano Fuksas discuss the Venice Biennale. Photography by Armin Linke

Bjarke Ingels, Julien De Smedt. Following the PLOT

Copenhagen’s new Maritime Youth House is a confirmation of the design talent of the co-founders of PLOT, the young Danish practice awarded the prize for best concert hall at the 9th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. Text by Aaron Betsky. Edited by Rita Capezzuto. Photography by Paolo Rosselli

The story of architecture

Giancarlo De Carlo interviewed by Stefano Boeri, Peter Davey and Axel Sowa. Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Bruno Latour. Never too late to read Tarde

Latour focuses on the conflict in being amongst those who believe in the existence of an economic infrastructure and those who confess to have serious doubts about it

Mimmo Jodice/São Paulo

A visual adventure in the heart of Brazil’s economic capital. Photography by Mimmo Jodice

Caseros. A model penitentiary transformed into a self-organised hell

Domus reconstructs the incredible history of the Caseros prison in Buenos Aires. Texts by Patricia Bullrich, Gaspar Libedinsky. Photographs by Gaspar Libedinsky. Portraits and interviews by Malena Perkins. Edited by Gaspar Libedinsky with Karen Marta, Elena Sommariva, Beatriz Arman

Iñaki Abalos. Observatories

When the human viewpoint becomes more intense through isolation and ascending upwards

Small observations on nature

The work displayed by Droog Design in collaboration with Lille European City of Culture 2004, is based around the theme of nature. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Photography by Ramak Fazel

Rastignac. La Comédie Humaine III

Scenes of Los Angeles life

World Architects. 1. Thabo Mbeki

How do political leaders interpret the notion of space? A series of articles edited by Eyal Weizman. In this issue: Thabo Mbeki, the South African president. Text by Lindsay Bremner

Interview: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to Cartier-Bresson and his partner Martine Franck in the last interview given by the French photographer. Portrait by René Burri. Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck

Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Mollino’s city

The last Mari

Ideas for Milan

Carlo Scarpa and the Biennale

Rassegna: Office Furniture

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Panorama

El Topo: Jimmie Durham

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick (Wrong Gallery)